A man is not a tree'... If we remain where we start from we will neither grow nor flourish.

— June Jordan

And if IIF I ever let love go because the hatred and the whisperingsbecome a phantom dictate i o-bey in lieu of impulse and realities (the blossoming flamingos of my wild mimosa trees)then let love freeze me out.(from I must become a menace to my enemies)

— June Jordan

And I got to thinking about the moral meaning of memory, per se. And what it means to forget, what it means to fail to find and preserve the connection with the dead whose lives you, or I, want or need to honor with our own.

— June Jordan

Bisexuality means I am free, and I am as likely to want to love a woman as I am likely to want to love a man, and what about that? Isn't that what freedom implies?

— June Jordan

But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.

— June Jordan

I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.

— June Jordan

I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black; it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.

— June Jordan

... Momma help return the face of history to your face.- Getting Down To Get Over - Dedicated To My Mother

— June Jordan

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

— June Jordan

So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders.

— June Jordan